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Brandy Station VFD Extends Its Thanks
Posted by: | CommentsThe Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department and the Auxiliary to the Fire Department would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make our 2010 Fire Department Fair a great success. The outpouring of community help with this, our major fundraising event of the year, was overwhelming again. We were very fortunate that Mother Nature blessed us with great weather.
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10 Drills for Fire Company Success
Posted by: | CommentsMay 6, 2010
Article By Joshua Shumate
In our day-to-day operations, sometimes it is easy to overlook the very things that we all learned the first week in the fire academy. Training is the foundation for safety, and safety is what we all want. Doing these 10 drills will make us safer and more efficient, and is just one more way to make sure everyone goes home in the morning.
Annual Banquet
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The Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department recently celebrated 59 years of service to the community at their annual awards dinner which was given to the Fire Department by the Auxiliary to the Fire Department on March 27th. The department responded to 517 emergency responses in 2009 and 195 non emergency; for a total of 712. Gordon Mackison was the top call runner with 291. The department logged 5,338 personnel hours and an additional 1,225 training hours for a total of 6,563 hours. J.D. Bailey was awarded the Training Award for 2009. Other awards that were given out at the dinner included; Joe Bailey the R.J. Bryce Award, Peppe Troilo, the Bunnie Jones Firefighter of the Year Award, Scott Yeiser; EMS Provider of the Year Award and Jeanne Jones was given the Auxiliary Member of the year award. The Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department is very thankful for the continued support of the community and will always do their best in providing Fire and Emergency Medical Services to the citizens of Culpeper County and the surrounding areas.
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From Left to Right: Doris Myers; Treasurer of the Auxiliary presents a donation of $45,000 to Tony Troilo; President of the Fire Department as Barbara Leathers; President of the Auxiliary and David Myers; Chief of the Fire Department look on. The Auxiliary work very hard all year raising funds for the fire department by serving meals at numerous dinners, providing food at the weekly Bingo and the annual Fair, and by having their famous fried chicken dinners. The Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department is very lucky to have such a hard working group helping them to raise funds and support themTeamwork and the Big Red Truck
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By Dave Murphy
I recently read an excellent book by Yogi Berra, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching/What I’ve Learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life. As expected, it was punctuated with Yogi’s insightful one-liners. Although Berra was primarily referring to the winning attributes of the unstoppable New York Yankees of the 1950s, his remarks are easily applicable to the United States fire service. Let’s examine of few of these attributes in that context.
The delivery of emergency services is not a game; somebody is most likely having a very bad day when we go out the door. People die, and sometimes these people are firefighters. You cannot change what you find when you get on scene; however, your team’s initial actions should strive for a best possible positive mitigation scenario in the first few minutes. So what exactly constitutes a “win” for us? Just for the sake of simplicity, here is a very elementary checklist: